Journal-box



A. C. McCORD.

.lOURNAL BOX.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4. 1917.

Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

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Mazda) H C M COR A. C.McCORD.

JOURNAL BOX.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4, 1917.

Patented Apr. 20, 1929.,

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JOURNAL-BOX.

Application filed June 4, 1917.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALVIN C. MoConD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Journal-Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to journal boxes, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction thereof. Particularly, the present invention is directed to an improved formation of inside stops on journal boxes of the type wherein the cellars, whether cast, or pressed from sheet steel, are primarily formed independently of the top, and the top made fast to the cellar in the forming of the said top, as, for example, in the construction disclosed and broadly claimed in the patent of Ivar A. Ilandel No. 1,077,159, of date, October 28, 1913.

In carrying out the invention broadly disclosed. in the said Randel patent, it has been the custom to form the inside stops simultaneously with and as a part of the top of the box.

As the chief feature of the present invention, the inside stops are formed, in advance of the formation of the top, and as integral parts of the side walls of the cellar. If the cellar be a pressed metal structure, then the inside stops will be formed by inwardly pressing the side walls of the box. If the cellar be a cast structure, formed in advance and independently of the top of the box, then the inside stops will be cast integral with the cellar, but preferably made hollow, so as to maintain approximately even thickness of metal in the side walls and in the walls of the said stops. In either case, the inside stops are formed as a part of the cellar, and the top of the box will be subsequently formed and secured to the upper edge of the said cellar.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved journal box;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1926.

Serial No. 172,587.

Fig. 2 is a view partly in front elevation and partly in vertical section on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

F 3 is a plan View of the box with some parts in horizontal section on the line 38 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4: is a vertical section taken on the line of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5 is a detail in vertical section corresponding to F l, but illustrating a pre ferred manner of forming the inside dust guard wall when the cellar is formed from pressed sheet metal, some parts of the box being broken away.

The cellar, as an entirety, is indicated by the numeral 6 in all of the views. I11 the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4:, inelusive, the cellar is a cast structure formed in advance of the formation of the top, and having an integral inside dust guard wall 7, while in the construction illustrated in Fig. 5, the cellar is a pressed metal structure and has an inwardly and upwardly pressed crease 8 that forms the inside dust guard wall.

Both the cast and the pressed cellar have outside dust guard walls 9, and in other respects, the cast and pressed cellars are of the same formation, except that one is cast and the other pressed. So far as the present invention is concerned, however, it is immaterial how the said inside and outside dust guard walls are formed.

The bottom of the cellar is preferably rounded or of arch shape in cross section at all points thereof, except at the central zone, and at its central zone, the sides, between the adjacent curved parts of the bottom are formed with integral depressions 10 that afford a flat bottom surface adapted to directly engage a flat intermediate portion of the arch bar of the side frame, not shown. Forward of the angular depressions 10, the cellar is also preferably formed with a dcpressed jack-engaging'boss 11.

Directly above the angular depressions or bulges 10, the sides of the cellar are formed with inwardly pressed or extended inside stops 12 for the bearing brasses, not shown. These stops 12 are angular in cross section, as best shown in Fig. 3 and they are made hollow, so that their walls have the same, or approximately the same thickness as the Walls of the cellar; and this is preferably so, regardless of whether the cel lar is pressed or cast in advance of the top. The cellar, when cast, Would preferably be of cast steel.

The independently formed top 13 would also preferably be of cast steel, and both the cellar and the top would be of the stand ard Master Car Builders type. For instance, the said top would have a suitable hinge lug 14, a wedge front stop 15, dust guard slot 16, and flat top arch bar seat extended at the sides to form pro ecting lugs 17 having arch bar bolt holes 18. The said top also has depending side flanges 13 that are cast onto the upper edges of the sides of the cellar, all as more fully dislosed in the said Randel Patent 1,077,159, referred to above.

It will be noted by reference to Figs. 1 and 4, that the flanges 13* extend below ,the upper edges of the inside stops 1? and,

in fact, that the upper edges of the said stops terminate at the fiat surface of the top proper and that the said flanges 18 are terminated short thereof, or in other words, do not, in this preferred arrangement, follow around the upper edges of the said inside stops, but leave the same exposed at the inside of the box up, completely, to the undersurface of the inside of the top (see particularly Fig. 2).

It will thus be noted that the formation of the inside stops 12 is completed before the top of the box is cast and, by the casting operation, is made fast to the cellar. Otherwise stated, the said inside stops are formed as a part of the operation of making the cellar, in advance of the formation of the top, and are made out of the cellar forming material and not out of the top forming material, and become associated with the top by the same operation that is required to apply the top to the cellar.

What I claim is:

1. A journal box comprising an independently formed metallic cellar and a cast top made fast to said cellar in the casting of said top, the said cellar having inside stops formed as a part thereof in the operation of forming the cellar and in advance of the casting of said top, and the said top having an arch, bar seat with perforated lugs projecting laterally from the sides of the cellar, said top further having depending flanges cast fast to the upper edges of the cellar but terminated short of the said inside stops and approximately at the side edges of said projecting lugs.

2. A journal box comprising an independently formed metallic cellar and a top fast to said cellar, the said cellar having inside stops formed as a part thereof in the operation of forming the cellar and in advance of the formation and application of said top,'the said inside stops being in the form of angular inward projections having walls of approximately the same thickness as the side Walls of said cellar, and the said top having a top arch bar seat with perforated lugs overlying the exterior cavities of said stops and projecting beyond the sides of the cellar, the said top further having independent flanges made fast to the upper side edges of said cellar but terminated short of said inside stops, the upper edges of the latter extending up to the surmade face of the said top.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALVIN C. MCCORD. Witnesses:

HENRY B. KEEP, C. J. COPELAND. 

